Conversion from old config to new theme

[durdo]

Hello!

First of all, I want to thank all the contributors to this project, I very much like rofi and I appreciate the work being done here.

I have an old rasi configuration where I specified my theme (using width, lines, columns, color-normal, so on and so forth) after a recent update I saw that there is a new config for theming.

My question is: Is there a trivial way to convert the old config to the new one?

I am very satisfied with the look I had but, at first try, I had difficulties trying to translate to the new format. I really wouldn't like to have to learn a new css-like configuration only to reproduce something that I already have.

Thank you,
Eduardo

[DaveDavenport]

The previous versions had an one-stop -upgrade-config option and gave a warning on each launch when an old version was launched..
Before that (since 2017) it could generate a new config file from your old config file.

The dependency on xcb-xrm was dropped and the old format cannot be parsed anymore.

[DaveDavenport]

I followed your instruction and had partial success!

The colors were translated perfectly, but some configs got lost: width, columns and lines (not sure if anything else ).

The 'color-normal', color-urgent options have been deprecated for many many years now.

I understand. I spent some time in the past to get the look that I liked and never went back to update it. Doing this now because I am being forced to.

Thank you for all the help.

I understand, but regrettable I cannot keep things around forever giving limited development time.

[durdo]

I am very sorry for wasting your time helping a "late adopter", I'll try to keep up-to-date to avoid this kind of problem in the future.

listview {
lines: 4;
columns: 3;
}

window {
width: 50%;
}

This did the trick. Now everything is working, no warnings, and the theme was correctly ported!

I understand, but regrettable I cannot keep things around forever giving limited development time.

Yeah, completely understandable. It would be unreasonable to ask for full retro compatibility forever.

Thank you for your patience,
Keep up the great work!

[DaveDavenport]

happy to hear it works.

[DaveDavenport]

I am very sorry for wasting your time helping a "late adopter", I'll try to keep up-to-date to avoid this kind of problem in the future.

If it goes friendly like this, I don't consider it a waste of time. Happy to help.

[DaveDavenport]

(if the question is answered, can you mark it? thx)